(U.S.) DC: Holocaust museum shooter too injured for court
— “James W. von Brunn, the white supremacist who fatally shot a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the District earlier this month, was still too injured from the gun battle to appear in court Tuesday morning.”
— “U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola has scheduled the next status hearing in U.S. District Court for July 10.”
— “A notebook was found in Mr. von Brunn’s car, which was parked outside the museum, with the messages the ‘Holocaust is a lie’ and President Obama ‘was created by Jews,’ according to an affidavit.”
Category: Anti-Semitism
Two Leading Holocaust Revisionists Profiled by New Jewish Magazine
The Odd Couple: Two Leading Holocaust Revisionists Profiled by New Jewish Magazine
— Holocaust revisionists Bradley R. Smith and Mark Weber
Holocaust Memorial Shooter Von Brunn: “Child porn on museum suspect’s computer, FBI says”
(U.S.) Holocaust Memorial Shooter Von Brunn: “Child porn on museum suspect’s computer, FBI says”
— “Von Brunn has been charged with the murder of museum security guard Stephen Johns. The white supremacist was shot in the face after two other security officers returned fire. He remains in a Washington hospital.”
— “Investigators also found business cards for von Brunn’s own Web site, which hosts postings of white supremacist writings.”
— “Earlier this week investigators filed papers saying among the items discovered in von Brunn’s apartment was a painting that appeared to depict Hitler and Jesus.”
— Additional R.E.A.L. Reports on Von Brunn
— AP report:
—- “Investigators said they also found a notebook in the car with handwritten notes saying, ‘The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America’s money. Jews control the mass media.'”
Blog report: Holocaust Museum shooter’s letters to Marine Corps General show longstanding ties to racist groups
WWW or KKK? Wiesenthal Center reports hike in ‘online hate’
WWW or KKK? Wiesenthal Center reports hike in ‘online hate’
— “‘I could have wiped out all the Jews in the world, but I left a few of them so that you would understand why I would have destroyed them,’ reads the Arabic text on a Facebook group page praising Adolf Hitler.”
— “This example of online hate is just a sample of similar content revealed in a new report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center titled ‘Facebook, YouTube and How Social Media Outlets Impact Digital Terrorism and Hate,’ which details the size and scope of Internet hate and terror sites in 2009 and was presented to Foreign Ministry officials on Monday.”
— “The report says some 10,000 hate sites, games and other online postings now call the Internet home.”
Holocaust Museum Attack: Von Brunn Links to German Neo-Nazis
(U.S./Germany) Holocaust Museum Killer Had Links to German Neo-Nazis
— Der Spiegel report on James von Brunn
— “In an e-mail to notorious lawyer Horst Mahler, he called hate ‘natural, normal and necessary.'”
— “He added that ‘compassionate nations’ would ‘die.'”
— “Aside from his links with Mahler, von Brunn had also voiced support for the notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, who is currently serving time in a German prison for incitement to racial hatred”
Italian Interior Minister defends patrols with “Fascist and Nazi-like symbols”
(Italy) Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni defends citizen patrols with “Fascist and Nazi-like symbols on its uniforms”
— Interior Minister Roberto Maroni
— “Italy’s interior minister defended plans Monday to allow citizen patrols to beef up security amid outrage over a new right-wing guard that has put Fascist and Nazi-like symbols on its uniforms.”
— “The Italian National Guard was launched at a news conference over the weekend, sparking outcry from the center-left opposition, Jewish groups, police unions and others that it evoked Italy’s fascist-era paramilitary Black Shirts.”
Washington DC – FBI: Holocaust Museum suspect expected to survive
DC – FBI: Holocaust Museum suspect expected to survive
“FBI Supervisory Special Agent Katherine Schweit said in a written statement Saturday that government lawyers told court officials that James von Brunn (vahn BRUHN’) ‘was in critical, but stable, condition with an expectation of survival.’ They made the statement Thursday when von Brunn’s case was called for an initial appearance hearing.”
Holocaust Memorial Shooter – SPLC says Michigan man recently took over racist site
(U.S.) Holocaust Memorial Shooter – SPLC says Michigan man recently took over racist site
— Chicago Tribune reports: “The Southern Poverty Law Center says the suspect in the fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum recently transferred the domain name of his racist Web site to a man in southwestern Michigan.”
— “Internet domain registration records show James von Brunn created www.holywesternempire.org in October 2000.”
— “The hate-crime watchdog group said Thursday that Steve Reimink acquired the domain name around the first of this month. The Montgomery, Ala.-based organization designated it as a hate Web site in 2003.”
— “The site was taken down Wednesday, after the shooting.”
— “Reimink lives in Ottawa County’s Grand Haven Township, about 25 miles west of Grand Rapids. He has not responded to phone messages and e-mails seeking comment.”
— SPLC: Alleged Holocaust Museum Shooter Had Given Up Hate Site, Planned Other Attacks
— Blog: “Holocaust Museum shooter’s website registered to domestic partner of Ron Paul campaign coordinator”
— Grand Rapids Press: “Brother defends hate site operator Steve Reimink who has ties to alleged Holocaust Museum shooter”
— “Steve Reimink, he said, apparently took over administration of the Web site simply to help out another person connected to the site.”
DC – US Holocaust Memorial Museum Attack: Additional Reports
— Redacted FBI affidavit (PDF – 95KB)
— Document: Criminal Complaint Against James W. von Brunn (PDF – 1.5MB)
— Washington Post: Holocaust Museum Shooter Could Face Death Penalty
— Washington Times: Man, 88, charged with murder in museum shooting
— Daily Telegraph: White supremacist Holocaust Museum gunman charged with murder of guard who helped him
— “The black security guard shot to death at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington by an 88-year-old white supremacist had held open the door for his killer, investigators said on Thursday”
— NY Post report
— AP photos – to those who don’t understand why we must challenge all hate with love – a graphic reminder (photo 1, photo 2):
— AP: White supremacist charged with Holocaust Museum murder
— “Critically injured in a hospital bed Thursday, the 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murdering Steven T. Johns, the black guard.”
— “Witnesses say he was wearing a confederate soldier’s cap and a long coat”
— Other Locations Believed To Have Been Targets for Holocaust Memorial Shooter
— Stephen T. Johns “Hailed A Hero”
— Holocaust museum closed for day to mark shooting, Additional WUSA report
— Holocaust Museum No Stranger To Anti-Semitism
— Jewish groups say attack is a ‘wake-up call’
— At a Solemn Memorial, a Moment of Deadly Violence
— Friends, Co-workers Remember Security Guard Killed in Museum Shooting
— Gunman kills guard at museum
— Alleged Holocaust Museum Shooter Had Given Up Hate Site, Planned Other Attacks
— Holocaust Museum shooter suspect served time in prison
— Suspect spewed hatred, convicted in ’80s plot
— Shooting suspect’s history of seething anger
— Holocaust Museum Shooting Suspect Had Been Growing More Hateful and Desperate
— A Suspect’s Long History of Hate, and Signs of Strain
— Von Brunn: “It’s time to kill all the Jews.”
— “Von Brunn apparently supported himself through much of the 1980s and ’90s by distributing copies of the Spotlight, the Liberty Lobby’s racist newspaper”
— Von Brunn: “It’s better to be strong than right… Crowds hate good guys.”